Very interesting and inspirational post. Makes me want to draw this very second!

great looking collection. I love browsing others sketchbooks as that is where their most creative pieces usually are.

Nice collection…will get d pencil in my hand now…..

Great and inspiring collection, thank you. I actually featured Yissus Galiana’s sketchbooks on the ooh nice blog today too. Great minds think alike! http://www.ooh-nice.com/2010/03/22/sketchbook-monday-yissus-galiana/

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Fantastic artwork. Inspiring.

Jacob,

When I checked it from home last night it didn’t seem like it loaded slow. However when I checked the thread just now it took a little longer for the images to come up while on my work network. I’m more then likely going to chalk it up to the ghetto network I am on at the office.

I know I am one person, but it didn’t bother me. I’ve come to expect sites that have a lot of images to load a little slower. In general I haven’t really noticed slowness in the site overall. But again that’s just me.

NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i never saw that kind of collection, so inpiring! thanks :))

Wohoooooooooooow!!! Thank you! It’s a kind of refresh! I loved it :)

I absolutely loved these! Awesome!

:) Thanks for the feature Design Instruct and Shane Ward!

Ha you got my boy Tim Duong on there! Check out more of his art here:

http://timothyduong.com/

Woops just noticed you guys already had his link there. His Behance account: http://www.behance.net/TimothyDuong

Loved loved loved David Fullarton’s pieces!

Ditto all of the comments on wanting to draw after seeing this… I think I have a sharpie on hand…

These are great- I especially like the work from @DavidFullarton and @YissusGaliana. Thought I might add mine to the mix, too: http://picasaweb.google.com/chrbutler/Sketchbook#

Awesome work! Going to buy my own sketchbook today! ;) regards from Brazil!

Outstanding Sketches!

Some of these guys must have sold their soul to the devil!

Irina Vinniks and Nacho-Yage are my favorites , but I checked almost all personal pages and everybody deserves a look.

Cheers,

Rodrigo.

I return to this post permanently, thanks!

very nice except for one but really nice wish i could draw like that

I love the idea, I don’t agree with many of the choices. Too much cartoon, too much fashion, a lot of “pretty” lightweight crap, but some really great stuff too

This is a beautiful assortment of sketchbooks. So many styles and subject matter. Keeps me on my toes whenever I look at this. Thanks for sharing!

these are great, an interesting combination of imagery! I also have some interesting sketchbook work that may be good to add to the mix.

Amazing selection of sketchbooks although you miss one of the most outstanding illustrator of our time: Mr. James Jean.

this makes me miss my moleskine. I’m going to go pick one up tomorrow… thanks for the inspiration everyone!

Remarkable! I’m without words. Thanks, though! That was great!

superb collection of pencil sketches…every sketch having its own importance…really got inspired to draw one…and of course looking forward for more of them.

Wow, what a huge collection of seriously rad work.

The ones that really stand out for me are the works of Yissus Galiana, Irina Vinnik, Joshua Philippe & Luishock for the display for sublime skills.

A special mention goes out to razead for seriously cool work & fdor being the odd one out in thsis lot, but in a good way!

Wonderful talent and authentic expressions of emotion, thoughts and dreams. Thanks for posting.

Of course these are all beautiful, but are they really art? Do they have any real underlying meaning beneath their appealing aesthetic? I wouldnt say they did. Note the use of moleskine notebooks – byword for the pretentious (although I do use a lined one myself to record my homework) white middle class aspiring to creativity.

Mine’s full, need a new one, too many ideas…

Awesome collection showing a huge variety of styles. Thanks for sharing this.

It loaded fairly quickly for me (maybe 10 seconds) on a DSL connection, but I don’t think I would have waited for it to load on my Mom’s dial-up connection.

The collection is insightful. How is it possible to do this? Is aberration of alien life forms? Yes? — No?

very interesting. i like it

Great post and beautiful works! Thank you!

Great bunch of work here! I’m really glad everyone shared.

Are these really sketches or full blown illustrations?…Yes they are great, but to me sketches are for practice, observations, and ideas….most of these look like complete illustrations captured in a sketchbook as a medium. I hope this not sound like a bummer post, but I really what to see some sketches….some real raw capture the moment of thought kinda stuff… there are several in this post that do look like that ~ Joshua Philippe, Taylor White, and a few more….

anyway, no matter, they are all great and inspirational…

Great post. Some are quite fun and inspirational.

Razead got it spot on

I agree with some of the other commenters—this post makes me want to get better at drawing! I’m jealous of these people’s amazing drawing skills.

The first one reminds me of my own, except i cant shade for shit….. :(
http://smashdadrum.deviantart.com/

Very interesting collection, thanks

makes you want to do something creative quick!

Kevin Cornell should be included in the Sketchbook Secrets: http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/

These are really amazing. People’s ability to create something from nothing with just a pen and a blank canvas never ceases to blow us away. Really nice selection.

You see, it is not pointless to dream great dreams. This is “Modern”. Protocol say YES… No… Tron. The Ghost in the Machine. A prophecy of Evil.
Just make sense of it! Kind of crazy. To the Batmobile! Gotham Knight protocol.
So happy to choose…

good inspiration. thank you

Whow!!! one cannot go through this without reaching for that sketch book and dusting it off. im so so inspired, just need to hold on tight to the inspiration. this page is bookmarked

Haha!! These are funny and super-cool. Great work! Made my day.

Love the artwork!

Great bunch of work here! I’m really glad everyone shared.

There’s some pretty disturbing drawings here…but I absolutely loved em all!

Wow! Amazing post. I too LOVE seeing others sketchbooks, usually the most free and creative an artist can be! :)

Great drawings! Some of them really made me laugh! i mean, the works Ar really awesome!

This site just sets me to drawing…………….

this post made me want to stop drawing!

Great work! Amazing talents!!!!

very nice, very inspiring. thanks for sharing.

Wow, really nice and makes me wanna start designing some new tattoos right away!

I am very much impressed by the sketches, started drawing one by one.I share these drawings with my friends and also bookmark this site.

why are a bunch of them put into a “notebook” with photoshop?

This stuff is real art. Self expressionism at it’s most rich. I just wish my sketchbook contains such vivid imagination as these… Amazing!

Amazing stuff!
Thanks for posting!

I wonder how much time has been spent on them…
I would call very few of them ’sketches’ :)

Nacho-Yague,

thumbs up!

You are pretty talented Shane! But maybe just a little morbid too! But hey! That’s aren’t isn’t it? Great work! Thanks for sharing these! Dave

Great work…and of course very talented artists..

it need much work and damn hot muse )))

It’s such a treat to look at artists’ sketchbooks and see all the effort and practice that go into their published works.

Great sketches. I found more great sketches at http://drawingsketchaday.blogspot.com/

definatly makes me want to just pop out a pencil and paper and sketch something :) very talented and brilliant I must say :)

Hey there, You have done a fantastic job. I’ll certainly digg it and personally recommend to my friends. I am confident they will be benefited from this website.

Truly amazing images!

Gracias, muy inspirador :)

Thanks for showing these for anyone to see! They are amazing!!

Some great inspiration here.

Wow! That was fun!

You inspire me. please post more.

Excellent selection of pictures. Loved it!

You guys might like this guy: http://chucklandvatterart.blogspot.com/

Great collection. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing imagination. Truly great with sketching. I love to sketch as well and tend to get a little crazy with it, but this guy is off the charts.

Wow… these are some hideous sketches.

amazing work…

Beautiful.Thank you!

really best one i really loved it hope so one day i can become a great artist too like them

some really inspiring visual diary’s here. They were a lot of help thanks a mil !